Shell disease in turtles in the Rappahannock River, Virginia

Herpetological Review

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 214-215

  Ernst, Carl H ^a   Akre, Thomas S B ^a   Wilgenbusch, James C ^a   Wilson, Thomas P ^a   Mills, Kenneth ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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